Champions for Children Annual Celebration

Thank you for joining us at Champions for Children! We are deeply grateful for your engagement—your support makes The Village’s impact possible.

Because of you, our work in the community continues to grow and thrive. On behalf of our team and those we serve, thank you for being a champion for our mission and an essential part of our Village.

2026 Champions for Children

Eric Feeney

Third-grade Teacher, Wolcott Elementary School and Founder & President, Friends of Feeney

Steven Rogers, MD, MS

Medical Director of Emergency Mental/Behavioral Health Services and the Youth Suicide Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s

We need your help to ensure that every child who spends time at The Village has the safest and most nurturing environment possible. Your support will make a difference every single day by helping to provide children at The Village with comforting spaces to heal and play.

Gifts of $1,000 or more can be pledged over three years and will be memorialized with a special engraved brick at the entrance of our historic campus.

To ensure your brick is included in the project, please give by June 5.

If you are interested in making a pledge of $1,000 or more over three years, please contact Sarah Adanti at (860) 297-0545 or [email protected].

Inspiring Stories

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June 5, 2026
The Village for Families & Children has named Eric Feeney, a third-grade teacher at Wolcott Elementary School in West Hartford, and Dr. Steven Rogers, Medical Director of Emergency Mental and ...
May 15, 2025
The Village has named Connecticut Office of Early Childhood Commissioner Beth Bye and posthumously recognized longtime Village Board Member Richard “Jerry” Bundy as its 2025 Champions for Children in honor ...
May 17, 2024
The Village has named Rabbi Donna Berman and Richard Sugarman as its 2024 Champions for Children in honor of their visionary leadership in service to youth in Greater Hartford. ...

Past Champions for Children

2025
Beth Bye

2025
In Loving Memory of Richard “Jerry” Bundy

2024
Rabbi Donna Berman

2024
Richard Sugarman

2023
Nancy and Jeffrey Hoffman

2022
Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives Matt Ritter

2022
Deputy Majority Leader and State Representative Tammy Exum